* John Halton: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:11:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Gunnar Wolf: >> >> > 2- This is the main reason I contact -legal: The short license >> > regarding the Adobe PostScript AFM files does mention 'for any >> > purpose and without charge'. How would you interpret this? >> >> Compare the Adobe AFM license and the MIT license. 8-) > > Heh. Fair point. But the MIT licence is clearer: "Permission is hereby > granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy...". No risk > of confusion there.
There are several variants of the MIT license, including one that uses "permission to use [...] for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted". MIT itself uses this variant for Kerberos 5. It's less popular than the non-ambigous wording, it seems, but even our own reportbug falls into the ambiguous category. Grepping for "and without fee is hereby" in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright yields quite interesting results. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
